Welted knit stocking and method of knitting the same.



R. W. SCOTT. WELTED KNIT STOCKING AND METHOD OF KNITTING THE SAME.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 23, 1914.

Patented Feb 16,

ROBERT W. SCOTT, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SCOTT 85 WILLIAMS, INCORPORATED, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WELTED KNIT STOCKING AND METHOD OF KNITTING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 191%.;

Application filed July 23, 1914. Serial No. 852,607.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT W. Soon, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVelted Knit Stockings and Methods of Knitting the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to knit fabrics having welts or hems and especially to plain knit articles having out-turned welts of the general character illustrated in my Patents Nos. 1,045,620, dated November 26, 1912, and 1,079,267, dated November 18, 1913, and to the art of making such fabrics.

Objects of my invention are to improve the juncture between the welt proper and the attached fabric, and to simplify the making of the fabric.

Figure 1 is a side view of a stocking illustrating one type of my improved article; Fig. 2 is an exterior view illustrating the points of attachment of the welt and of the top and the body according to my invention; Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrative of a segment or section of needles of a machine, in aid of explanation of the method. Figs. 4 to 7 are diagrams illustrative of the formati'on of the first few courses of the welt.

My improved article may be composed of flat or tubular fabric having therein needle wales a and b separated by the usual sinker wales. I may provide an integral welt W and top T, for one instance, upon a circular knit or seamless stocking such as that shown in Fig. 1, having a leg L, a foot F, and a hee and toe of the usual form, the leg lL consisting of fabric of any desired number of needle wales in width, the top T having therein fewer needle wales and the welt W having as many needle wales as the top. The welt IV is of the genus illustrated in my said patents, comprising plain fabric having needle wales of which the back or loop side lies outward, the face or Wale side lying within a tubular fold continuous with that part of the article to which it is attached, certain loops at or near the beginning of the welt being withheld upon the needles, and subsequently attached where the welt fabric merges into the article by loo'ps engaging the withheld loops, the course containing said engaging loops being hereinafter referred to as a uniting course. In my application Serial No. 823,121, filed March 7, 1914, (now Patent No. 1,113,166, dated October 6, 1914) I have described and claimed an improvement over said patented constructions comprising a Welt having as many needle wales as the attached fabric, the withheld loops being provided in needle wales standing bet-ween and corresponding to the sinker wales of the attached fabric. My present invention provides another species of the genus described and claimed in said application.

Referring now to Fig. 2, I provide a welt IV having as many needle wales a as the attached fabric'T has wales b, the withheld loops w for uniting the initial part of the welt to the fabric T being provided in wales corresponding to the wales b of the fabric L, which. wales I) stand between and correspond to the sinker wales between Wales a of the welt fabric \V. I begin the welt, re

ferring now to Fig. 3, by feeding an initial yarn 1 to the needles a, said yarn not being taken by the needles I), but passing at their backs. The first course will then lie when viewed in plan as shown in Fig. 4. I may as described in my Patent No. 1,094,347, dated April 21, 1914 maintain the said yarn 1 of the first course under stress in the manner therein described and claimed. Having applied a yarn 1 to the recurrent needles a among the whole series of needles, I now apply a yarn 2 to the needles 6 only, which are the remaining needles, if necessary placing said yarn under stress in the same manner as the course of yarn 1 to cause it to pass behind the position of the needles (1. The yarn structure lying upon the needles will now be that illustrated in Fig. 5. The needles I; holding the loops of the yarn 2 are now retired to a position permitting the needles a to knit and cast off over their heads, the said needles I) holding their loops is of the course 2. Knitting for the fabric of the welt may now proceed upon the needles a only, as indicated in Figs. 6 and 7. The described operations have resulted in engaging the yarn of course 2 at the loops to with the initial yarn 1, but no loop of the yarn of course 2 is taken in the wales a, which are initiated as shown in Figs. 2 and 6 by knitting through the loop originally taken by said needles (1 ofthe' yarn-1. Withrespect to the article of man'u facture, the" withheld loops thus occurin conrse, I -lp oi the w tile welt course the yarns of this procen of the a: oi strain between 9, results from for the entire n (a labile.

occurs 1" ibution ner shown course 5L whereupon i loops w ca so" that shown I! gether Wlti'l th will so the Wales penetrating can or top or ins: or e loops in one. icons 2 iorm a or secs: suen w 7 A 5 L oe n sole that course or courses X to pass behind loops of the wales a, as by again operating the needles 6 to hold the loops 2 and to retire to a position permitting the yarn of course I X to be passed over the heads of said begmmn at'the course 33, with the em needles 6. The last course X having-been knit, the needles are operated to cast ofithe loops 0: in said course. These loops are the terminal loops of all the wales a, which, as

described in my said application, are thrown forward between the other needles, so that when the needles I; are again operated in course-33, the yarn of said course 33 will engage the loops :10, which arethus passed through the sinker Wale between adjacent needles 6 toward the face of the fabric, to form an eficient lock to revent raveling of the loops :0 and those behind them. The top fabric T may now be knit as described in change 0 the yarn for aheavier yarn, which will again be replaced b a lighter yarn at the end of the .top '1, or instance in the course 121, Fig; 2. :At the endof the fabric T, the needles a will be-againintroduced to knit normal fabric upon; the full number of needles sofar employed for the legL;

in connection with 3 J c illns- 7o trated merely to indicate capac y ltor c i'- H eedles short for the needles Z) and longer jeclrs a. The operations do Tier-med by machine re e the needles 0 to be retired from acn While holding their loops during lcnitupon the remaiin and require the needles {5 be capable oi 11g operated so as not .to tslrethe yarn, or to cast off and retire (or to cast off in each course) during normal knitting upon the-remainder. 'llhesc one-rations in y" be perrorined in an independent n eo knitting machine by suitably operating the aclzs of different lengths selectively at required times.

78h. I claim is a lrnit fabric, a portion forming a portion integrally attached thereto, said welt portion having a course subsequent V L v- 7 .1. M serenely operatin in, lal I": urs

to "lo initial course all of the needle-loops of which are penetrated by a course of the attached fabric.

2. In a lrnit fabric, an integral welt having an initial course connn'ising the initial loop of each needle-Wale of the welt fabric, and a COULSG of yarn free of said needlewales engaging said initial course and having loops attached to another portion oithe fabric.

3. In a knit fabric, a we t, said welt having an initial course, and a subsequent course comprising withheld loops in engage ment with said initial course only, the needle wales of the ,welt beginning at loops of the initial course, and a uniting course drawn through said withheld loops and the terminal loops of the needle wales of the welt.

4. A knit fabric having an integral outturned welt, said welt being joined toadjacent fabric by withheld loops in a course subsequent to its initial course and by its terminal loops, the needle wales of said welt all extending from loops of a course other than that containing said withheld loops.

5. In a knit fabric a welt havin needlewales and sinker-wales and an attac ed portionhaving needle-wales corresponding to sinker-wales of the welt, a unitingcourse having one needle loop in each needle Wale of'both of said parts, that loop of said uniting course occurring in a needle Wale of the attached portion engaging a withheld loo y passed through: a slnker-wale of the we t This introduction results -1n -the eyelet holesyf I I l y k, shown as occurring "between courses 120-;- and, 121. As I have ertrlplaiilnedin my said "a plication carrying t e eavyf yarn past tile, course in which the --needles are introabrio 1;

6. In a y it fabric an integral welt united to the attached fabric by a course of needle loops. in wales suppressed in nearby courses, sand; loops Ibemg locked against rav eling,

said uniting course having other loops in engagement with a course of the Welt engaging the initial course thereof only.

7. In a stocking, a top having a certain number of Wales, a Welt having the same number of Wales, and a uniting course having as many loops as there are Wales in both fabrics, said loops alternately engaging Withheld loops in a course of the Welt l0 subsequent to the initial course and in engagement With said initial course only, the remaining loops of said uniting course penetrating the terminal loops of the welt fabric.

8. The method of forming plain-fabric knit articles having an integrally united Welt which comprises first forming an initial course into loops at recurrent instruments only of a series of instruments; thereafter forming a subsequent course having loops at the remaining instruments of said uniting course having loops penetrating all of the loops of said subsequent course and the termlnal course of Welt fabric, and then lmitting fabric in continuation of said uniting course.

9. Theart of knitting a Welt and an attached portion of a plain fabric knit article with the aid of a series of hooked instruments such as knitting needles, Which comprises placing an initial course in the hooks of recurrent instruments of said series, thereafter placing a second course in the hooks of the remaining instruments and causing the second course to pass at the backs of said recurrent instruments, Withholding the loops of said second course at said remaining instruments and then knitting fabric for a Welt at said recurrent in-' struments; and thereafter forming a uniting course at all of said instruments and knitting an attached portion of the fabric in continuation of loops of said uniting course.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

ROBERT W. SCOTT.

Witnesses: 1

MARJORIE H. SHELDON, MARY F. GRIFFIN. 

